Commando Archive

>>You'll see, our FT wasn't nerfed. Yet. In fact, it was buffed a little because of the increase in initial damage, since the DoT so far is the same as before.<<

Tha'ts simply not true.First, there is now heat resists to the flame (good, always should have been). That will have a significant effect on the damage you deal. For example, fight any nightsisters yesterday? Second, the fact that the inital hit targets a random HAM pool matters (for the big stuff). So, before your massive flame dot wreaked havoc on the Health pool. Now, it can hit any of the three. Your chance of the second blow striking the same pool is 1/3. You could do more damage and easily take far longer to kill larger mobs, given this.

It does a lot for the commando/tkm template though. Hit the mob with the initial flamesingle2, then follow up on that pool with your tka's HAM-specific attacks.

You can call it balancing, a fix, or a nerf. I don't really care. The flamethrower is still strong, but not as strong as it was two days ago, greater initial punch notwithstanding.